Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-22
MYSTERIOUS CRIME AT PARIS.
Three Women Found Murdered In q
Wealthy Quarter Of the city.

Three Women Found Murdered In q
Wealthy Quarter OF the City.
PARIS, March l9.--The triple murdeI
which took place here on Thursday last was
one Of the most appaIlingcrimes on record.
1t occurred at No. II Rue Montaigne, the
street leading from Rue du Faubourg st.
Honore TO the Champs Elyses. II is a
quarter OF wealthy and fashionable inhab
itants, and the crime is only one of the
startling number of murders and suicides
which have recently taken place in the
more respectable quarters of this city.
Nine. Regnault, sometimes called Nine.
Montey, reside. in sumptuously furnished
apartments at No. Il Rue MOutaigne. Her
femme de chambre and the latter's daugh.
ter, twelve years old, slept in room near
the bedroom of Nine. Regnault. When the
cook came down, Thursday morning from
her room in the garnet she was unable 10
succeed in rousing anybody TO admit
her to the apartment. Frightened out ui
her wits, she went for the Police Commis-
sary, who broke open the door and found
Nine. Regnault, in her night-dress, lying
dead on the floor, with large cash IN
each side of her throat. In the maid +
room the sight was even more revolving.
There were two beds and a corpse lay in
each. The mother had been killed by
two blows of u chopper, and the daughter
by one blow, which had almost severed
her head from the body. II appears that
Nine. Rrgnault was protected" by a
gentleman of much prominence, whose
name the papers here do not reveal. An
iron strong-hoX was at the heat Of
the murdered lady's bed, and it was
stained with blood, but not opened.
1t contained $40, 600 worth of iewclry.
Nine. Regnault had a great deal OF money,
which had been we'll invested by her pro-
teCtnr. Her furniture alone was worth
ST., 600 and she had fine pictures and sill
ver plate. The theory of the police u, that
she WAS murdered about six in the morn.
ing by young man who had gone home
with her the night before. But no trace
of him has yet been discovered. Why he
should have murdered everybody IN the
flat is incomprehcnsihle Nine. ReSnaul
came Ia Paris from Chalons sur Marnc AZ
a young girl three years ago. and at once
set out on an irregular life, which she
seems to have made quite profitable. A.
though under the protection Of u very
prominent citizen, she took the liberty OF
inviting other gentlemen TO her house.
The motive for the crime is un-
known. The murderer WAS seen by the
cook when he came home with Nine. Reg
nault, and had been there twice before.
lie was then fair-haircd and we'll dressed
lie left behind him a sleeve-link inscribed
with his initials, which correspond 10 the
signatures appended to a few love letters
found on the manteIpece in the bedroom
4 shirt cuff, which evidently fell down in
the confusion, is also marked with these
initials The murdered woman and b. r
famine dc cidmihc had come from CbalObs
together, and were much attached, the
former being gOdmOther 10 the latter :
daughter. Not long ago Nine Ergnault
had fallen in love with an officer, who was
married, which made her very unhappy.
She consoled herself with the young man
who killed her